Critical data from the US “blue economy” has now been made far more accessible across business, conservation and recreation thanks to a global mobile app development competition which seeks to turn latent ocean data into viable servicescontinue

New York’s American Museum of Natural History, one of the largest of its kind in the world, is digitizing its vast collections with hopes that ocean data from the past can help inform scientists for the presentcontinue

While Scotland banned the use of plastic straws from Parliament earlier this month there will be a countrywide ban on the single-use plastic product which all too often ends up in the ocean and on some of the most remote beaches around the worldcontinue

Whilst working with Sir David Attenborough on a conservation documentary about wildlife in the Commonwealth, the Queen of England has apparently taken a keen interest in the crises surrounding single-use plastics—so much so that she has called for a ban on single-use plastics, such as plastic straws, from all Royal estates.continue

In a jointly published study, the Swire Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), the WWF Coral Triangle Program, and ADM Capital Foundation urge more regulation of a largely unregulated seafood industry in Hong Kongcontinue

A recent bioluminescent phytoplankton bloom under Bixby Bridge, on California's Big Sur coast, has photographers flocking to the already popular spot to witness the glowing blue blanket of magic just below the surface...continue